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Jive Software's 10 Steps to Sales Software Adoption

Adoption is the foundation of any software ROI. Over the last 10 years, studies found that between 30-70% of CRM projects failed. The scary reality is that the most widely-used sales tool is a 40-year-old piece of technology: EMAIL.

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and communicate to achieve breakthrough results in sales, marketing, customer service and workforce productivity.

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It’s more than just the recruiting and job seeking platform.187M+ members worldwide2 new members join every second2.6M company pages1.5M special interest groupsLinkedIn’s mission: connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful

It’s more than just the recruiting and job seeking platform.187M+ members worldwide2 new members join every second2.6M company pages1.5M special interest groupsLinkedIn’s mission: connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful

Jive Software's 10 Steps to Sales Software Adoption

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Adoption is the foundation of any software ROI. Over the last 10 years, studies found that between 30-70% of CRM projects failed.And, the scary reality is that themost widely-used sales tool is a40-year-old piece of technology: EMAIL.

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Why have traditional sales tools failed to gain ADOPTION???CRM  Transaction focused and historical data  Primary value is for management.  Not used by experts who support salesCMS  Built for authoring, not accessing information.  Static repositories and one directional.  Not collaborative / based on a selling situation.  “Just in case” training versus just in time.LMS  Doesn’t reflect real selling or learning from peers.  Content is out of date and costly

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GET SALES TALKING Make sure sales are communicating in the tool at every level where they used to in email or on phone calls: Executives need to have bought into social and contribute content in order to create the culture. Video blogs are a great way to accomplish this. Sales leadership groups can also collaborate and share monthly best practices or create regional groups. Create a sales mentoring program to incent top reps to share with newbies and cross-pollinate best practices.

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SEED THE FIELD Plant new content in your new system and shut down locations where they can access old content.DON’T HAVE CONTENT??? Ask questions about topics and elicit responses from sales and experts. Have ideation jams on missing sales collateral. Crowd-source content to create the best pitches and proposals.

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RAISE THE BARN Have in-person & virtual events and let sales submit content, whittle it down to the best messaging.Leverage Your People: ‘Like’, rate, and and socialize the content Create polls to vote on top content. Track impact stats to see what was really the best

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RECORD EVERYTHING Videotape and record live events, QBR’s, sales call, etc. Serve them up as a series for those who couldn’t make it.Don’t Miss the Memo: Sales Leadership Video blogs Weekly Sales Calls Top reps doing the sales pitch

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ACCESS ON THE ROAD In the world we live in you need to have access from any mobile device, including smart phones and tablets.Give your teammembers the ability tocreate content, askquestions, presentpitches, andaccelerate the deal,online or off.

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MAKE IT FUN Use gamification to create contests, assign missions, and give rewards for behaviors you are trying to incent.Leverage Your People: Incent behaviors with missions. Track progress. Award badges and prizes.

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EXPERIENCE IS EVERYTHINGIf it isn’t as easy to use or slicker thanthe tools sellers know and love, don’troll it out. Try BEFORE you BUY.

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Do you have other ways that youhave rolled out software to sales with high adoption rates?Comment below to add to the discussion. Also, downloadour free best practices paper on Sales Enablement: click here.